Still Waters Posted October 24, 2011 #1 Share Posted October 24, 2011 The upcoming movie In Time features digital clocks embedded in the skin; but imagine that instead of showing your life ticking, the image was part of your phone's interface. Need to make a call? Just dial it up on the palm of your hand.Chris Harrison, a PhD student at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, and a fellow at Microsoft Research, came up with a wearable device that projects an image onto a surface, which then doubles as a touch screen. Called Omnitouch, the system uses a shoulder-mounted device that both a camera and projector. The camera images your fingers and builds a three-dimensional map of them. Then the software builds a kind of skeletal diagram that shows where the fingertip is. To detect a "click" the camera looks for areas of the finger that are in contact with a surface. (The only time it doesn't work is if the area the finger is in is outside the camera's view). Read more... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
booNyzarC Posted October 24, 2011 #2 Share Posted October 24, 2011 That's pretty cool. It'd be even cooler if the projector/camera was also a shoulder cannon like in Predator. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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